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READINGS 


AND 


QUOTATIONS. 


ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS 
AND INSTITUTES, 



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7 5 


BY 


R. N. PEMBERTON. 



CHICAGO : 

A. Flanagan, Publisher, 
1891, 




COPYRIGHT 

1891 

By E, N. PKMBEBTQy. 



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INTRODUCTION. 


This little book of Scripture lessons and quotations is 
intended for young people, but especially for those attending 
8 chool. The moral and religious lessons presented are worth 
a careful study by every young person, and many of the pas¬ 
sages should be committed to memory. It has been said that 
“it is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment, than 
to teach the mind a truth of science,and it is to be hoped 
that some of the grand and noble sentiments gathered 
^pgether and expressed on these pages, will find lodgment in 
many fertile minds and hearts and be so cherished there as to 
prove a fruitful blessing in after life. 

Teachers should endeavor to have each pupil provided 
with a copy of this book, and they should carefully direct the 
use and study of it. If practicable, have devotional exer¬ 
cises in the school* There is too great a tendency to omit this 
duty. Much depends upon ihe manner of conducting such 
exercises. As far as practicable the pupils should participate 
instead of remaining indifferent listeners. It is a good plan 
for the teacher to read a passage or quotation first, giving 
proper emphasis and inflection, then have the school repeat 
in concert. Scripture reading should be done with due rever¬ 
ence and respect, and should never be followed by light and 
trivial songs. A few passages and quotations should be mem¬ 
orized each month, and short biographies of the different 
authors quoted should be made out by members of the school. 

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CONTENTS 


Actions. 32 

America. 56 

Bad Company. 32 

Benevolence. 33 

Bethany. 57 

Corinthians. 21 

Character. 34 

Conscience. 34 

Conversation. 35 

Coronation. 56 

Duty. 36 

Ecclesiastics. 5 

Ephesians. 22 

Galatians. 29 

Good Deeds. 36 

Habits. 37 

Health. 38 

Humility. 39 

Honesty. 39 

Honor. 40 

H ebrew.. 23-26 

Isaiah. 9-12 

Job. 6-14 

James. 24-25 

Justice. 41 

Jesus, Lover of my Soul. 58 

Kindness. 41 

Matthew. 18, 26, 27-30 


Morals. 42 

Moral Courage. 43 

Miscellaneous Selections. 54 

Obedience. 43 

Peter. 24 

Proverbs. 8 

Psalms.6, 7, 10, 11, 16-17 

Patience. 44 

Patriotism. 44 

Perseverance. 45 

Prudence. 46 

Procrastination.46 

Pride. 47 

Politeness. 47 

Romans. 20-31 

Reverence... 48 

St. Luke. 28 

St. John. 19 

Self Control. 49 

Sincerity. 50 

Slander. 51 

Study. 51 

Ten Commandments.... 13 

Temperance. 52 

Temptation. 52 

Truth. 53 

Virtue. 53 




























































READINGS AND QUOTATIONS. 


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Readings. 


Lessons from the Old Testament. 


NO. I. ECCLESIASTES 12, 1-8. 

1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy 
youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw 
nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in 
them; 

2. While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the 
stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the 
rain. 

3. In the day when the keepers of the house shall 
tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves and 
the grinders cease because they are few, and those that 
look out of the windows be darkened, 

4. And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when 
the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at 
the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music 
shall be brought low; 

5. Also when they shall be afraid of that which is 
high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond 
tree shall, flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a bur¬ 
den, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his 
long home, and the mourners go about the streets: 

6. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden 
bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the foun¬ 
tain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 

7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: 
And the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 




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READINGS AND QUOTATIONS. 


NO. 2. job 5, 6-19. 

6. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, 
neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 

7. Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly 
upward. 

8. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I 
commit my cause: 

9. Which doeth great things and unsearchable; mar¬ 
velous things without number: 

10. Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth 
waters upon the fields: 

11. To set upon high those that be low; that those 

which mourn may be exalted to safety. 

12. He disappointed the devices of the crafty, so 
that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ’ 

13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and 
the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. 

14. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and 
grope in the noonday as in the night. 

15. But he saveth the poor from the sword, from 
their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 

16. So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her 

mouth. * 

17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: 
therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Al¬ 
mighty. 

18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he 
woundeth, and his hands make whole. 

no. 3. psalms 107, 21-39. 

21. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his good¬ 
ness, and for his wonderful works to the children of 
men! 

22. And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thank¬ 
giving, and declare his works with rejoicing. 

23. They that go down to the sea in ships, that do 
business in great waters; 


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24. These see the works of the Lord, and his won¬ 
ders in the deep. 

25. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy 
wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 

26. They mount up to the heaven, they go down 
again to the depths: their soul is melted because of 
trouble. 

27. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken 
man, and are at their wit’s end. 

28. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, 
and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 

29. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves 
thereof are still. 

30. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he 
bringeth them unto their desired haven. 

31. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his good¬ 
ness, and for his wonderful works to the children of 
men ! 

32. Let them exalt him also in the congregation of 
the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. 

33. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the 
watersprings into dry ground; 

34. A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wicked¬ 
ness of them that dwell therein. 

35. He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, 
and dry ground into watersprings. 

36. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that 
they may prepare a city for habitation; 

37. And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which 
may yield fruits of increase. 

38. He blesseth them also, so that they are multi¬ 
plied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 

no. 4. psalms 1. 

1. Blessed is the man that walketh notin the coun¬ 
sel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, 
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 


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2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in 
his law doth he meditate day and night. 

3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers 
of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his 
leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth 
shall prosper. 

4. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff 
which the wind driveth away. 

5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the 
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the 
righteous. 

6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous 
but the way of the ungodly shall perish. 

NO. 5. PROVERBS 15, I—I I. 

1. A soft answer turneth away wrath:,but griev¬ 
ous words stir up anger. 

2. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: 
but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. 

3. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, behold¬ 
ing the evil and the good. 

4. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but per¬ 
verseness therein is a breach in the spirit. 

5. A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he 
that regardeth reproof is prudent. 

6. In the house of the righteous is much treasure: 
but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. 

7. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but 
the heart of the foolish doeth not so. 

8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination 
to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 

9. The way of the wicked is an abomination unto 
the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after right¬ 
eousness. 

10. Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh 
the way, and he that hateth reproof shall die. 


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NO. 6. PROVERBS, 20. I-I2. 

1. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and 
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 

2. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: 
whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own 
soul. 

3. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: 
but every fool will be meddling. 

4. The sluggard will not plough by reason of the 
cold; therefore shall he begin harvest and have nothing. 

5. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; 
but a man of understanding will draw it out. 

6. Most men will proclaim every one his own 
goodness; but a faithful man, who can find? 

7. The just man walketh in his integrity: his 
children are blessed after him. 

8. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment, 
scattereth away all evil with his eyes. 

9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I 
am pure from my sin? 

10. Divers weights, and divers measures, both of 
them are alike abomination to the Lord. 

no. 7. Isaiah 25, 1-9. 

1. O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I 
will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful 
things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 

2. For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a 
defenced city a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city; 
it shall never be built. 

3. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, 
the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 

4. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a 
strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the 
storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the 
terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 


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5. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, 
as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the 
shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones 
shall be brought low. 

6. And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts 
make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of 
wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines 
on the lees well refined. 

7. And he will destroy in this mountain the face 
of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that 
is spread over all nations. 

8. He will swallow up death in victory; and the 
Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; 
and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from 
off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. 

no. 8. psalms 63. 

1. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek 
thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for 
the in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 

2. To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have 
seen thee in the sanctuary. 

3. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, 
my lips shall praise thee. 

4. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up 
my hands in thy name. 

5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and 
fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful 
lips: 

6. When I remember thee upon my bed, and med¬ 
itate on thee in the night watches. 

7. Because thou hast been my help, therefore in 
the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 

8. My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right 
hand upholdeth me. 

9. But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall 
go into the lower parts of the earth. 


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10. They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a 
portion for foxes. 

11. But the king shall rejoice in God; every one 
that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of 
them that speak lies shall be stopped. 

no. 9. psalms 103, 8-19. 

8. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to 
anger, and plenteous in mercy. 

9. He will not always chide: neither will he keep 
his anger for ever. 

10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor 
rewarded us according to our iniquities. 

11. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so 
great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 

12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath 
he removed our transgressions from us. 

13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord 
pitieth them that fear him. 

14. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth 
that we are dust. 

15. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower 
of the field, so he flourisheth. 

16. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; 
and the place thereof shall know it no more. 

17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting 
to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his right¬ 
eousness unto children’s children; 

18. To such as keep his covenant, and to those that 
remember his commandments to do them. 

no. 10. psalms 147, 1-10. 

1. Praise ye the Lord; for it is good to sing praises 
unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. 

2. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gather- 
eth together the outcasts of Israel. 


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3. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up 
their wounds. 

4. He telleth the number of the stars: he calleth 
them all by their names. 

5. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his un¬ 
derstanding is infinite. 

6. The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the 
wicked down to the ground. 

7. Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing 
praise upon the harp unto our God: 

8. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who 
prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow 
upon the mountains. 

9. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the 
young ravens which cry. 

no. 11. Isaiah 53, 1-10. 

1. Who hath believed our report? And to whom 
is the arm of the Lord revealed? 

2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender 
plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no 
form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there 
is no beauty that we should desire. 

3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of 
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it 
were our faces from him; he was despised, and we es¬ 
teemed him not. 

4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our 
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of 
God and afflicted. 

5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he 
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our 
peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are 
healed. 

6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have 
turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath 
laid on him the iniquity of us all. 


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7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he 
opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the 
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, 
so he openeth not his mouth. 

8. He was taken from prison and from judg¬ 
ment: and who shall declare his generation? for he 
was cut off out of the land of the living: for the trans¬ 
gression of my people was he stricken. 

9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and 
with the rich in his death; because he had done no 
violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 

NO. 12. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven 
image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven 
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the 
water under the earth: 

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve 
them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, 
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate 
me; 

And showing mercy unto thousands of them that 
love me, and keep my commandments. 

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy 
God in vain: 

For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh 
his name in vain. 

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: 

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy 

God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy 
son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy 
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is 
within thy gates: 

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, 


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READINGS AND QUOTATIONS. 


the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the 
seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath 
day, and hallowed it. 

5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days 
may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God 
giveth thee. 

6. Thou shalt not kill. 

7 . Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

8. Thou shalt not steal. 

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy 
neighbor. 

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou 
shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, 
nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any¬ 
thing that is thy neighbor’s. 

no. 13. job 28. 

1. Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place 
for gold where they fine it. 

2. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is 
molten out of the stone. 

3. He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out 
all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow 
of death. 

4. The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; 
even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried 
up, they are gone away from men. 

5. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and 
under it is turned up as it were fire. 

6. The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and 
hath dust of gold. 

7. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and 
which the vulture’s eye hath not seen. 

8. The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the 
fierce lion passed by it. 

9. He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he 
overturneth the mountains by the roots. 


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10. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his 
eye seeth every precious thing. 

11. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and 
the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. 

12. But where shall wisdom be found? and where 
is the place of understanding? 

13. Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is 
it found in the land of the living: 

14. The depth saith, it is not in me: and the sea 
saith, it is not with me. 

15. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver 
be weighed for the price thereof. 

16. It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, 
with precious onyx, or the sapphire. 

17. The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and 
the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. 

18. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: 
for the price of wisdom is above rubies. 

19. The topaz of Ethiopia, shall not equal it, 
neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 

20. Whence then cometh wisdom ? and where is the 
place of understanding? 

21. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and 
kept close from the fowls of the air. 

22. Destruction and death say, we have heard the 
fame thereof with our ears. 

23. God understandeth the way thereof, and he 
knoweth the place thereof. 

24. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and 
seeth under the whole heaven: 

25. To make the weight for the winds; and he 
weigheth the waters by measure. 

26. When he made a decree for the rain, and a way 
for the lightning of the thunder: 

27. Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared 
it, yea, and searched it out. 

28. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the 


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READINGS AND QUOTATIONS. 


Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is under- 
standing. 


no. 14. psalms 23. 

1. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 

2. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: 
he leadeth me beside the still waters. 

3. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the 
paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 

4. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the 
shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with 
me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 

5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence 
of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my 
cup runneth over. 

6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all 
the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of 
the Lord forever. 

no. 15. psalms 90, 1-13. 

1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all 
generations. 

2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or 
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even 
from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 

3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, 
Return, ye children of men. 

4 . For a thousand years in thy sight are but as 
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 

5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they 
are as a sheep: in the morning they are like grass 
which groweth up. 

6. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; 
in the evening it is cut down and withereth. 

7. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by 
thy wrath are we troubled. 


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8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our 
secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 

9. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: 
we spend our years as a tale that is told. 

10. The days of our years are threescore years and 
ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore 
years, yet is their strength, labour and sorrow'; for it is 
soon cut off, and we fly away. 

11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even 
according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 

12. So teach us to number our days, that we may 
apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

no. 16. psalms 37, 1-11. 

1. Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither 
be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 

2. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, 
and wither as the green herb. 

3. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou 
dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 

4. Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall 
give thee the desires of thine heart. 

5. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in 
him; and he shall bring it to pass. 

6. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as 
the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 

7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: 
fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his 
way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices 
to pass. 

8. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not 
thyself in any wise to do evil. 

9. For evil doers shall be cut off: but those that 
wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. 

10. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not 
be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and if 
shall not be. 


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Extracts from the New Testament. 

NO. 17. MATTHEW 6, 9-16. 

9. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our 
Father which art in heaven, Hallowed by thy name, 

10. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, 
as it is in heaven. 

11. Give us this day our daily bread. 

12. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our 
debtors. 

13. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, 
and the glory, for ever. Amen. 

14. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your 
heavenly Father will also forgive you: 

15. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, 
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 

NO. iS. MATTHEW 6 , 1 9 —3 I - 

19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, 
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves 
break through and steal: 

20. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, 
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where 
thieves do not break through nor steal: 

21. For where your treasure is, there will your 
heart be also. 

22. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore 
thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of 
light 

23. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall 
be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee 
be darkness, how great is that darkness! 

24. No man can serve two masters: for either he 
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will 
hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve 
God and mammon. 



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25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for 
your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor 
yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life 
more than meat, and the body than raiment? 

26. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, 
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your 
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much 
better than they ? 

27. Which of you by taking thought can add one 
cubit unto his stature? 

28. And why take ye thought for raiment? con¬ 
sider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil 
not, neither do they spin: 

29. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in 
all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the 
field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the 
oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of 
little faith. 


no. 19. st. john 3, 16-22. 

16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his 
only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

17. For God sent not his son into the world to con¬ 
demn the world; but that the world through him might 
be saved. 

18. He that believeth on him is not condemned; but 
he that believth not is condemned already, because he 
hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son 
of God. 

19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come 
into the world, and men love darkness rather than 
light, because their deeds were evil. 

20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, 
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be 
reproved. 


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21. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that 
his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought 
in God. 

NO. 20. ROMANS 13, I-9. 

1 . Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. 
For there is no power but God: the powers that be are 
ordained of God. 

2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resist- 
eth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall 
receive to themselves damnation. 

3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but 
to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? 
Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the 
same: 

4. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. 
But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he 
beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of 
God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth 
evil. 

5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only 
for wrath, but also for conscience’s sake. 

6. For, for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they 
are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this 
very thing. 

7. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to 
whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to 
whom fear; honor to whom honor. 

8. Owe no man anything, but to love one another: 
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 

no. 21. romans 14, 5-14. 

5. One man esteemeth one day above another: an¬ 
other esteemeth every day alike. Let every man b‘e 
fully persuaded in his own mind. 

6. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto 
!he Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the 


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Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to 
the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth 
not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. 

7. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man 
dieth to himself. 

8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; 
and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we 
live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. 

9. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and 
revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and 
living. 

10. But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why 
dost thou set at naught thy brother? for we shall all 
stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 

11. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every 
knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to 
God. 

12. So then every one of us shall give account of 
himself to God. 

13. Let us not therefore judge one another any 
more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumb¬ 
ling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way. 

NO. 22. I CORINTHIANS 13, 1-8. 

1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and 
of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sound¬ 
ing brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and 
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though 
I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and 
have not charity, I am nothing. 

3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the 
poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and 
have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 

4. Charity*suffereth long, and is kind; charity en- 
vieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 


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5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not 
her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 

6. Rejoicetn not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the 
truth; 

7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth 
all things, endureth all things. 

NO. 23. EPHESIANS 6, I-IO. 

1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for 
this is right. 

2. Honor thy father and mother; which is the first 
commandment with promise; 

3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest 
live long on the earth. 

4. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to 
wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admoni¬ 
tion of the Lord. 

5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your 
masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, 
in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; 

6. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the 
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the 
heart; 

7 . With good will doing service, as to the Lord, 
and not to men: 

8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man 
doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether 
he be bond or free. 

9. And ye masters, do the same things unto them, 
forbearing threatening: knowing that your master also 
is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with 
him. 

NO, 24. EPHESIANS 6, I I —19. 

11. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may 
be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 

12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 


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against principalities, against powers, against the rulers 
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wicked¬ 
ness in high places. 

13. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of 
God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, 
and having done all, to stand. 

14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about 
with truth, and having on the breastplate of right¬ 
eousness; 

15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the 
gospel of peace; 

16. Above-all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith 
ye shall be able 'to quench all the fiery darts of the 
wicked. 

17. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword 
of the spirit, which is the word of God. 

18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication 
in the spirit, and watching thereunto with all perse¬ 
verance and supplication for all saints. 

NO. 25. HEBREWS 13,1,2,3,5,6,7. 

1. Let brotherly love continue. 

2. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for 
thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 

3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound 
with them; and them that suffer adversity, as being 
yourselves also in the body. 

5. Let your conversation be without covetousness; 
and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath 
said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 

6. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my 
helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto 
me. 

7. Remember them which have the rule over you, 
who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose 
faith follow, considering the end of their conversa¬ 
tion. 


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NO. 26. I. PETER 4, 14-19. 

14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy 
are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon 
you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part 
he is glorified. 

15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a 
thief, or as an evil doer, or as a busybody in other men’s 
matters. 

16. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him 
not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 

17. For the time is come that judgment must begin 
at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what 
shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of 
God? 

18. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where 
shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 

no. 27. james 1, 5-13. 

5. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, 
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; 
and it shall be given him. 

6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for 
he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with 
the wind and tossed. 

7. For let not that man think that he shall receive 
anything of the Lord. 

8. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 

9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he 
is exalted. 

10. But the rich, in that he is made low: because as 
the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 

11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning 
heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof 
falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so 
also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 

12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: 


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for when he is tired, he shall receive the crown of 
life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love 
him. 


NO. 28 . JAMES I, I7-27. 

17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from 
above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with 
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 

18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of 
truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his 
creatures. 

19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man 
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 

20. For the wrath of man worketh not the 
righteousness of God. 

' 21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and super¬ 
fluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the 
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 

22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers 
only, deceiving your own selves. 

23. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a 
doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face 
in a glass: 

24. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, 
and straightway forgetteth what* manner, of man he 
was. 

25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of lib¬ 
erty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful 
hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed 
in his deed. 

26. If any man among you seem to be religious, 
and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, 
this man’s religion is vain. 

27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the 
Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in 
their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the 
world. 


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NO. 29. HEBREWS 4, 9-16. 

9. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people 
of God. 

10. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath 
ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 

11. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, 
lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 

12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, 
and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even 
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the 
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts 
and intents of the heart. 

13. Neither is there any creature that is not mani¬ 
fest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened 
unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 

14. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, 
that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, 
let us hold fast our profession. 

15. For we have not a high priest which cannot be 
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in 
all points tempted like as we are, vet without sin. 

16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of 
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to 
help in the time of need. 

NO. 30. MATTHEW 22, 34.-4I 

34. But when the Pharisees had heard that he had 
put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered 
together. 

35. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked 
him a question, tempting him, and saying, 

36. Master, which is the great commandment in 
the law? 

37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy mind. 


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38. This is the first and great commandment. 

39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love 
thy neighbor as thyself. 

40. On these two commandments hang all the law 
and the prophets. 

NO. 31. MATTHEW 5, 33—41. 

33. Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by 
them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but 
shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: 

34. But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by 
heaven; for it is God’s throne; 

35. Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool* neither 
by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 

36. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because 
thou canst not make one hair white or black. 

37. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; and 
Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh 
of evil. 

38. Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for 
ah eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 

39. But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but 
whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to 
him the other also. 

40. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and 
take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 

NO. 32. MATTHEW 5, 3~I2. 

3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the 
kingdom of heaven. 

4. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be 
comforted. 

5. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the 
earth. 

6. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst 
after righteousness: for they shal‘1 be filled. 





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7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain 

mercy. “8 -H 

8. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall 

see God. A? jgjjjj 

9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be 
called the children of God. 

10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for right¬ 
eousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

11. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and 
persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against 
you falsely, for my sake. 

no. 33. st. luke 10, 25-38. 

25. And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and 
tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit 
eternal life? 

26. He said unto him, What is written in the law? 
how readest thou? 

27. And he answering said, Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 
and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and 
thy neighbor as thyself. 

28. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered 
right; this do, and thou shalt live. 

29. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto 
Jesus, and who is my neighbor? 

30. And Jesus answering said, A certain man went 
down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, 
which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, 
and departed, leaving him half dead. 

3 1. And by chance there came down a certain priest 
that way; and when he saw him, he passed by on the 
other side. 

32. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the 
place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the 
other side. 

33. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came 


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where he was; and when he saw him, he had compas¬ 
sion on him, 

34. And went to him, and bound up his wounds, 
pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, 
and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. 

35. And on the morrow when he departed; he took 
out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto 
him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendst 
more, when I come again, I will repay thee. 

36. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was 
neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? 

37. And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. 
Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. 

NO. 34. GALATIANS 6, I—II. 

1. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye 
which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit 
of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be 
tempted. 

2. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the 
law of Christ. 

3. For if a man think himself to be something, 
when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 

4. But let every man prove his own work, and 
then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not 
in another. 

5. For every man shall bear his own burden. 

6. Let him that is taught in the word communi¬ 
cate unto him that teacheth in all good things. 

7. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for what¬ 
soever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 

8. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh 
reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall 
of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 

9. And let us not be weary in well doing r for in 
due reason we shall reap, if we faint not. 

10. As we have therefore- opportunity, let us do 


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good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the 
household of faith. 

NO. 35. MATTHEW 7, I —I 3. 

1. Judge not, that ye be not judged. 

2. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be 
judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be 
measured to you again. 

3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in 
thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that 
is in thine own eye? 

4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me 
pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam 
is in thine own eye? 

5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of 
thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast 
out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. 

6. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, 
neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they 
trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend 
you. 

7. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye 
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 

8. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he 
that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall 
be opened. 

9. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son 
ask bread, will he give him a stone? 

10. Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a ser¬ 
pent? 

11. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good 
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your 
Father which is in heaven give good things to them 
that ask him? 

12. Therefore, all things whatever ye would that 
men should do t© you, do ye even so to them: for this 
is the law and the prophets. 


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NO. 3 6 . ROMANS 12, IO-2I. 

10. Be kindly affectioned one to another with 
brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; 

11. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serv¬ 
ing the Lord; 

12. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; con¬ 
tinuing instant in prayer; 

13. Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to 
hospitality. 

14. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and 
curse not. 

15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep 
with them that weep. 

16. Be of the same mind one toward another. 
Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low 
estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 

17. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide 
things honest in the sight of all men. 

18. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live 
peaceably with all men. 

19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but 
rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Venge¬ 
ance is mine; I will repay saith the Lord. 

20. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if 
he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt 
heap coals of fire on his head. 

21. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with 

good. 


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quotations. 


For Memory Gems or Responsive Reading. 


no. 37. ACTIONS. 

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a 
good action to all eternity.— Lavater . 

God is pleased to vouchsafe the best that he can give 
only to the best that we can do.— South. 

We are not only to look at the bare action but at the 
reason of it.— Sticlingjleet. 

In every action reflect upon the end; and in your 
undertaking it consider why you do it.— yeremy Tay¬ 
lor. 

Every man should regulate his actions by his own 
conscience.— Dr. yohnson. 

Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well 
your part, there all the honor lies.— Pope. 

The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions 
are weighed.— Bible. 

Our actions must follow us beyond the grave. 

— Colton. 


NO. 38. BAD COMPANY. 

Be cautious with whom you associate, and never give 
your company or your confidence to persons of whose 
good principles you are not certain .—Bishop W. H. 
Coleridge. 




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We should ever have it fixed on our memories, that 
by the character of those whom we choose for our 
friends, our own is likely to be formed, and will cer¬ 
tainly be judged of by the world.— Blair. 

In all societies it is advisable to associate if possible 
with the highest: not that the highest are always the 
best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time 
descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is 
impossible.— Colton. 

As a man is known by his company, so a man’s com¬ 
pany may be known by his manner of expressing him¬ 
self.— Swift. 

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose 
intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are 
characters decidedly bad.— Lavater. 

NO. 39 . BENEVOLENCE. 

Benevolence is a duty.— Emmanuel Kant. 

The duty of benevolence is imposed upon all. 

Every one may not be able to bestow money upon 
others, but every one may render assistance in some 
form to the distressed, and every one may show sym¬ 
pathy with the afflicted.— Way land. 

/ Let us remember those that want necessaries, as we 
ourselves should have desired to be remembered had it 
been our sad lot to subsist on other men’s charity. 

— Atterbury. 

It is more blessed to give than to receive. 

— fesus Christ. 

God loveth a cheerful giver.— Apostle Paul. 

If the poor found the rich disposed to supply their 
wants, or if the weak might always find protection 
from the mighty, they could none of them lament their 
own condition.— Swift. 

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A beneficent person is like a fountain, watering the 
earth and spreading fertility; it is therefore more de¬ 
lightful and more honorable to give than to receive. 

— Epicurus, 

He is great who confers the most benefits. He is 
base who receives favors and renders none.— Emerson . 


NO. 40. CHARACTER. 

From the same materials one man builds palaces 
another hovels; one warehouses, another villas: bricks 
and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect 
can make them something else.— Carlyle . 

Distinguished merit will ever rise superior to oppres¬ 
sion, and will draw lustre from reproach. 

—Robert Hall . 

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the 
pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the 
pathway of the strong.— Carlyle. 

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by 
which you may spell characters.— Lavater . 

Characters drawn on dust, that the first breath of 
wind effaces, are altogether as useful as the thoughts of 
a soul that perish in thinking.— Locke . 

For the structure that we raise 
Time is with materials filled; 

Our todays and yesterdays 
Are the blocks with which we build. 

— Longfellow. 


NO. 41. CONSCIENCE. 

What comfort does overflow the devout soul from a 
consciousness of its own innocence and integrity. 

— Tillotson . 


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He that loses his conscience has nothing left worth 
keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that. 

—Izaak Walton. 

How awful is that hour when conscience stings.— 
Percival. 

Thou may’st conceal thy sin by cunning art, 

But conscience sits a witness in thy heart; 

Which will disturb thy peace, thy rest undo. 

— Watkyns . 

First guilty conscience doth the mirror bring, 

Then sharp remorse shoots out her angry sting. 

— Dry den. 

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches 
. of his own heart.— Addison . 

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the 
body.— Addison. 

A tender conscience, of all things, ought to be 
tenderly handled.— Burke. 

Conscience is the foundation of all religion. 

— Charnock. 

Let a prince be guarded by soldiers, attended by 
councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts 
disturb him, he is miserable.— Plutarch. 

NO. 42. CONVERSATION. 

Be humble and gentle in your conversation.— William 
Pelt’s Advice to his Children. 

There are three things in speech that ought to be 
considered before some things are spoken,—the manner , 
the place , and the time. — Southey. 

Be silent always when you doubt your sense.— Pope. 

’Tis remarkable, that they 
Talk most who have the least to say. 

— Prior. 


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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence. 

■* —Lord Bacon. 

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together; 
for talking and thinking are two quite different facul¬ 
ties .—E Estrange. 

Evil communications corrupt good manners. 

—Apostle Paul. 

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of thy 
mouth .—Apostle Paul. 


no. 43. DUTY, 

What it is our duty to do we must do because it is 
right, and not because any one can demand it of us.— 
Whew ell. 

Fear God, and keep his commandments for this is 
the whole duty of man.— Bible . 

There is not a moment without some duty.— Cicero. 

Doing is expressly commanded, and no happiness 
allowed to any thing short of it.— South. 

Duty by habit is to pleasure turned.— Brydges. 

Do what conscience says is right; 

Do what reason says is best; 

Do, with all your mind and might; 

Do your duty, and be blest. 

— Whittier. 

What is our duty here? To tend 
From good to better—thence to best. 

— Bowring. 

God never accepts a good inclination instead of a 
good action.— South. 


NO. 44. GOOD DEEDS. 

A good deed is never lost.— Basil. 


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He who receives a good turn should never forget it. 
— Charron. 

He is good that does good to others.— La Bruy ere. 

That which is good to be done cannot be done too soon; 
and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently 
happen that it will not be done at all.— Bishop Mant. 

He that does good to another man does also good to 
himself; for the conscience of well-doing is an ample 
reward.-—A 1 eneca. 

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a 
man’s life.— Sir Phillip Sidney. 

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over 
another man than this, that, when the injury began on 
his part, the kindness should begin on ours.— Tillotson . 

Overcome evil with good.— Apostle Paul. 

Count that day lost whose low descending sun, 

Sees from thy hand no worthy action done. 

— Stanispord. 

A noble deed is a step toward God.— Holland. 
no. 45. HABITS. 

Habit is the deepest law of human nature.— Carlyle . 

The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy 
enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken. 
— Dr. Johnson. 

Like flakes of snow, that fall unperceived upon the 
earth, the seemingly unimportant events of life succeed 
one another. As the snow gathers together, so are our 
habits formed.— Bentham. 

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, 
and at last we cannot break it.— Horace Mann . 

Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will 
render it the most easy.— Tillotson. 


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Custom has an ascendancy over the understanding. 

—Dr. I, Watts . 

All habits gather by unseen degrees; 

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.— Dryden . 

Those who are in the power of evil habits must 
conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, 
or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained. 

Dr. johnson. 


NO. 46. HEALTH. 

Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy. 

—Benjamin Franklin . 

All means that conduce to health can neither be too 
painful nor too dear to me.— Montaigne . 

Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues 
which conduce to the preservation of our health. 

— Tillotson. 

Nature delights in most plain and simple diet. 

— Addison. 

But health consists with temperance alone.— Pope. 

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a sound 
body.— juvenal. 

Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter 
of health.— Addison. 

There is this difference between those two temporal 
blessings—health and money: Money is the most 
envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, 
but the least envied.— Colton. 

NO. 47. HUMILITY. 

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues. 

— Dryden . 


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It is vain to gather virtues without humility; for the 
spirit of God delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the 
humble.— Erasmus. 

The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night. 

— Lavater. 

To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals, is cour¬ 
tesy; to inferiors, is nobleness; and to all, safety. 

—Sir T. More. 

Be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. 

—Apostle Paul. 

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and 
honor, and life.— Proverbs. 

True humility, the basis of the Christian system, is 
the low, but deep and firm, foundation of all real 
virtue.— Burke. 

Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth. 

-— St. Matthew. 


NO. 48. HONESTY. 

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill 
character.— Antoninus . 


The safest way to secure honesty is to lay the foun¬ 
dation of it early.— Locke. 

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.— Pope. 


Who is the honest man? 

He that doth still and strongly good pursue, 

To God, his neighbor, and himself most true; 

Whom neither force nor fawning can 
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. 

—Herbert. 


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incerity and honesty carries one through many diffi¬ 
culties which all the arts he can invent would never 
help him through. For nothing doth a man more real 
mischief in the world than to be suspected of too much 
craft.— Stillingfleet. 


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NO. 49. HONOR. 

As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so 
honor peereth in the meanest habit.— Shakspearc. 

He that depends upon another, must oblige his honor 
with a boundless trust.— Waller. 

When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and 
our country, it cannot be too much cherished.— Addison. 

What can be more honorable than to have courage 
enough to execute the commands of reason and con¬ 
science. — yeremy Collier . 

What is becoming is honorable, and what is honor¬ 
able is becoming.- — Cicero. 

Do not consider what you may do, but what it will 
become you to do, and let the sense of honor govern, 
regulate your mind.— Claudian. 

Industry hath annexed thereto the fairest fruits and 
the richest rewards.— Barrow. 

There is no art or science that is too difficult for in¬ 
dustry to attain to.— Lord Clarendon. 

That which causes us to lose most of our time is the 
repugnance which we naturally have to labor. 

— Dryden . 

Excellence is never granted to man but as the 
reward of labor.— Sir yoshua Reynolds. 

If little labor, little are our gains 

Man’s fortunes are according to his pains. 

— Herrick. 

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall 
stand before kings.— Proverbs. 

Absence of occupation is not rest; 

A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d. 

— Cozvper. 


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If you have but an hour will you improve that hour, 
instead of idling it away.— Chesterfield. 

Idleness is both itself a great sin, and the cause of 
many more.— South. 


no. 50. justice. 


Justice consists in doing no injury to men.— Cicero. 

Let Justice be done though the heavens fall. 

— Old Latin Proverb. 

We will neither refuse nor postpone the administra¬ 
tion of justice which is due to any man. 

—Magna Charta. 

Be just in all thj actions, and if joined 

With those that are not, never change thy mind. 

— Denham. 


Be just in all you say, and all you do .—Dry den. 

Many who are very just in their dealings between 
man and man will yet be very fraudulent or rapacious 
with regard to the public.— Dr. S. Clarke. 

There is an exact geometrical justice that runs 
through the universe.— Glanvill. 


In matters of equity between man and man our 
Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in the place 
of myself, and myself in the place of my neighbor. 

— Dr. I Watts. 


NO. 51. KINDNESS. 

A small unkindness is a great offence. 

—Hannah More . 

’Tis the first sanction nature gave to man, 

Each other to assist in what they can. 

— Denham. 

The drying up a single tear has more 
Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. 

— Byron. 


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The great duty of life is not to give pain; and the 
most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse for one who 
voluntarily wounds the heart of a fellow creature. 

—Frederika Bremer . 

How truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, 
making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles. 

— Washington Irving. 

Men’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands 
mourn.— Burns. 

Kind words can never die.— Hutchinson. 

Kindness to the wrong is never without its excellent 
reward.— Whittier. 


NO. 52. BE KIND TO ANIMALS. 

The brute animals have all the same sensations of 
pain as human beings, and, consequently, enduie as 
much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case 
the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no 
mind to bear them up against their sufferings. 

— Dr. T. Chalmers. 


NO. 53. MORALS. 

What can laws do without morals? 

—Benjamin Franklin. 
For every false word or unrighteous deed * * 

* * the price has to be paid at last.— Froude. 

Where there is a moral right on the one hand, no 
secondary right can discharge it.— L?Estrange. 

There is in every moral being a faculty or sense by 
which he is enabled to distinguish right from wrong. 

— jiidge George Sherwood. 


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It is found by experience, those men who set up for 
morality without regard to religion are generally 
but virtuous in part.— Swift. 

The true ground of morality can only be the will 
and law of a God who sees men in the dark, has in his 
hands rewards and punishments, and power enough to 
call to account the proudest offender.— Locke. 

NO. 54. MORAL COURAGE. 

The man that’s resolute and just, 

Firm to his principles and trust, 

Nor hopes nor fears can blind.— Walsh. 

Lean not on the right hand nor on the left. Ponder 
the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established. 

— Solomon. 

Whatever people may think of you, do that which 
you think to be right.— Pythagoras. 

To know a thing is right, and not to do it, is a weak¬ 
ness.— Confucius. 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in ris¬ 
ing every time we fall.— Goldsmith. 

Like a solid rock, unshaken by the wind, wise people 
are unfaltering amid praise or blame.— Hindu. 

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolu¬ 
tion may gain his point.— L?Estrange. 

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with 
half a mind, with a faint heart, with a lame endeavor. 

— Barrow . 


NO. 55. OBEDIENCE. 

Children obey your parents.— Apostle Paul. 

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit 
yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that 


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must give account, that they may do it with joy, and 
not with grief; for that is unprofitable for yqu. 

—Hebrews 13, 1 7. 

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good 
of the land.— Isaiah /, 19. 

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but 
always submit your judgment to others with modesty. 

— George Washington. 

NO. 56. PATIENCE. 

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of 
peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility. 

—Bishop Horne. 

He surely is most in want of another’s patience who 
has none of his own.— Lavater. 

No school is more necessary to children than patience. 

— Richter. 

The best moral argument to patience, in my opinion, 
is the advantage of patience itself.— Tiliotson. 

How poor are they who have not patience! What 
wound did ever heal but by degrees!— Shakspeare. 

Be patient toward all men.— Apostle Paul. 

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.— Rousseau. 

Indolence is often taken for patience. 

—French Proverb . 

NO. 57. PATRIOTISM. 

The Union must be preserved.— Andrew Jackson. 

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and insep¬ 
arable.— Daniel Webster. 

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my 
country.— Natha7i Hale. 


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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. 

—Patrick Henry . 

Breathes there a man with soul so dead, 

Who never to himself hath said, 

This is my own, my native land! 

— Scott. 

A man’s country is not a certain area of land,—of 
mountains, rivers, and woods,—but it is principle, 
and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. 

— G. W. Curtis. 

If the Norwegian boasts of his home of rocks, and 
the Siberian is happy in his land of perpetual snow; if 
^fcfre Roman thought the muddy Tiber was the favored 
river of heaven, and the Chinese pities everybody born 
out of the flowery Kingdom,—shall not we, in this land 
of glorious liberty, have some thought and love for 
country ?— Wendell Phillips. 

NO. 58. PERSEVERANCE. 

If aught obstruct thy course, yet stand not still, 

But wind about till thou hast topp’d the hill. 

— Denham. 

Perseverance keeps honor bright.— Shakspeare. 

Much rain wears the marble.— Shakspeare. 

All the performances of human art, at which we 
look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resist¬ 
less force of perseverance.— Dr. JJohnson. 

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend 
life in one common pursuit; for excellence is not often 
gained upon easier terms.— Dr. Johnson. 

The great effects that may come of industry and per¬ 
severance, who knoweth not?— Lord Bacon. 

Success treads on the heels of every right effort. 

— Smiles. 


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NO. 59. PRUDENCE. 

Prudence and good breeding are in all stations nec¬ 
essary.— Locke. 

Learn to hold thy tongue.— Fuller . 

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean con¬ 
cernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken. 

— Plutarch. 

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures 
of silver.— Proverbs. 

When any great designs thou dost intend, 

Think on the means, the manner, and the end. 

— Denham. 

* The prudent are crowned with knowledge. 

— Proverbs . 

Prudence is a lovely quality. This teaches us to 
speak every word, and perform every action of life, at 
a proper time, in the proper place, and toward the pro¬ 
per person. It is a very desirable excellency to know 
when it is proper to speak, and when it is best to keep 
silence.— Dr. Isaac Watts. 

NO. 60. PROCRASTINATION. 

There is no moment like the present. 

—Maria Edgeworth. 

Shun delays, they breed remorse; 

Take thy time while time is lent thee. 

— Southwell. 

Procrastination is the thief of time.— Young. 

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise; 

To-morrow’s sun to thee may never rise. 

— Congreve. 

Dost thou love life? Then waste not time, for time 
is the stuff that life is made of.— Benjamin Franklin . 


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O man! while in thy early years, 

How prodigal of time! 

Misspending all thy precious hours, 

Thy glorious youthful prime! 

— Burns. 

There will always be something that we shall wish 
to have finished, and be nevertheless unwilling to 
begin.— Dr. yohnson. 

Good is best when soonest wrought, 

Lingering labors come to naught. 

— Southwell. 

NO. 6l. PRIDE. 

Of all the causes w'hich conspire to blind 

Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind, 

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, 

Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. 

— Pope. 

Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault) 

Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. 

— Roscommon. 

Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; 

It hurts not in itself, but as ’tis placed: 

When right, its views know none but virtue’s bound; 
When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around. 

— Stillingjleet. 

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us 
desire the esteem of others.— Blair. 

A proud man will be sure to challenge more than be¬ 
longs to him.— yeremy Collier . 

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit 
before a fall.— Proverbs. 

NO. 62. POLITENESS. 

A man’s own good breeding is the best security 
against other people’s ill manners .—Lord Chesterfield. 

Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon 
them, in a great measure, the laws depend.— Biirke. 


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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than 
to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another 
than to knock him down.— Dr. Johnson. 

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in 
most men’s power to be agreeable.— Swift. 

Good manners are a part of good morals.— Whately. 

What’s a fine person, or a beauteous face, 

Unless deportment gives them decent grace? 

— Churchill. 

Know then, that as learning, honor, and virtue are 
absolutely necessary to gain you the esteem and admi¬ 
ration of mankind, politeness and good breeding are 
equally necessary to make you welcome and agreeable 
in conversation and common life .—Lord Chesterfield. 

NO. 63. REVERENCE. 

We must take heed how we accustom ourselves to a 
slight and irreverent use of the name of God, and of 
the phrases and expressions of the Holy Bible, which 
ought not to be applied upon every slight occasion. 

— 7 dllot son. 

In no nation under heaven, probably, has the pro¬ 
fanation of sacred terms been so prevalent as in this 
Christian land. The name even of the Supreme 
Being himself, and the words he has employed to de¬ 
nounce the punishments of the impenitent, are rarely 
mentioned but in anger or in sport. * * * 

It may not be improper to remind such as indulge this 
practice that they need not insult their Maker to show 
that they do not fear him .—Robert Hall. 

All should reverence these sacred words of God: 

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in 
vain. 

Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctu¬ 
ary: I am the Lord.— Bible. 


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NO. 64. SELF-CONTROL. 

When anger rises think of the consequences. 

— Confucius. 

To be angry is to resolve the faults of others upon 
ourselves.— Pope. 

If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurt¬ 
ful to us than the injury that provokes it.— Seneca. 

I believe we shall do everything something the 
better for putting ourselves in as good a humor as pos¬ 
sible when we set about it.— Burke. 

An attribute so precious, that, in my consideration, 
it becomes a virtue, is a gentle and constant equality of 
temper.— Bishop Stanley. 

Of all bad things by which mankind are cursed, 

Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. 

—Richard Cumberland. 

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city 
that is broken down, and without walls.— Proverbs. 

Always avoid saying anything that you may wish 
unsaid.— Lord Collingwood. 

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; 
and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. 

— Proverbs. 

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, 
desires, and fears, is more than a king.— Milton. 

The sun should not set upon our anger.— Colton. 

NO. 65. SELF-LOVE. 

The only sure way of avoiding these evils is never 
to speak of yourself at all.— Lord Chesterfield. 

Speech of man’s self ought to be seldom, and well 
chosen.— Lord Bacon. 

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Every man is prompted by the love of himself to 
imagine that he possess some qualities, superior, either 
in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the 
rest of the world.— Dr. yohnson. 

Self-love will make men partial to themselves and 
their friends.— Locke . 

Insolvent is he that despiseth in his judgment all 
other folk.— Chaucer . 

Nature worketh in us all a love of our own counsels. 

— Hooker . 

O impudent! regardful of thy own, 

Whose thoughts are entered on thyself alone. 

— Dryden. 

NO. 66. SINCERITY. 

True wisdom and greatness of mind raise a man 
above the need of using little tricks and devices. 

— Stillingfleet . 

He that does as well in private between God and his 
soul, as in public, hath given himself a testimony that 
his purposes are full of honesty, nobleness and integrity. 

— yereviy Taylor . 

Now, the best way in the world to seem to be any¬ 
thing, is really to be what we would seem to be. 

— Tillotson . 

The more sincere you are, the better it will fare with 
you at the great day of account.— Waterland. 

Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cement¬ 
ing principle.— Burke . 

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. 

— Coleridge . 

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his 
integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his 
turn, neither truth nor falsehood.— Tillotson . 


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NO. 67. SLANDER. 

O many a shaft at random sent, 

Finds mark the archer never meant, 

And many a word at random spoken, 

May spothe or wound the heart that’s broken. 

— Scott. 

There are those whose joy is, night and day, 

To talk a character away.— Pope. 

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out;so where 
there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.— Proverbs. 

Speak evil of no man .—Apostle Paul. 

I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are 
untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be 
true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. 

—Montesquiea u. 

To speak ill upon knowledge shows a want of char¬ 
ity ; to speak ill upon suspicion shows a want of honesty. 

— Warwick. 


no. 68 . STUDY. 


Learning by study must be won; 

’Twas ne’er entailed from sire to son.— Gay. 

Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun, 

That will not be deep searched with saucy looks. 

— Shakspeare. 


It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when 
what we search for is excellent.— Cicero. 

/ All who would study with advantage, in any art 
/ whatsoever, ought to betake themselves to the reading 
J of some sure and certain books oftentimes over. 

— Luther. 


There is no study that is not capable of delighting 
us after a little application to it.— Pope. 

The chief art of learning is to attempt but little 
at a time.— Locke. 


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NO. 69. TEMPERANCE. 

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of 
the human race, nor alienate so much property, as 
drunkenness.— Lord Bacon. 

Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws 
people off their guard; betrays them to a great many 
indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in 
fortune; makes them discover secrets,drive foolish bar¬ 
gains, engage in play.— Jere?ny Collier. 

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.— Junius. 

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables 
her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.— Addison. 

Temperance first, as it tends to procure that coolness 
and clearness of head which is so necessary. 

—Benjajnin Franklin. 

Temperance, the best guardian of youth and support 
of old age; the precept of reason as well as religion, 
and physician of the soul as well as the body. v 

—Sir W. Temple. 

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the 
mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the 
divine spirit wq had been endowed with.— Horace. 

W** seldom repent having eaten too little. 

— Thomas Jefferson. 

NO. 70. TEMPTATION. 

’Tis wisdom to beware, 

And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. 

— Dryden. 

Stand fast; and all temptations to 
transgress repel. 

— Milton. 

Be watchful and employ’d, 

Soon the baffled tempter flies. 

— Matteux. 


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When dev ils do their blackest sins put on, 

They do suggest at first with heavenly shows. 

— Shakspeare. 

NO. 71. TRUTH. 

All truth is precious.— Covoper. 

Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie; 

A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. 

—George Herbert. 

Convince the world you are devout and true. 

— yuvenal. 

Oh what a tangled web we weave 
When first we practice to deceive.— Scott. 

All deception in the course of life is, indeed, nothing 
else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing 
from words to things.— South. 

The lip of truth shall be established forever but a 
lying tongue is but for a moment.— Proverbs. 

Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. 

Prophet Zachariah . 

Be always precisely true in whatever thou relatest of 
thy own knowledge, that thou mayst gain an undoubted 
and settled reputation for veracity.— Fuller. 

It is not right or manly to lie, even about Satan. 

— Garfield. 

no. 72. VIRTUE. 

Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, is the 
best gift of heaven.— Armstrong. 

Virtue cannot subsist without religion.— Hall. 

The path to peace is virtue.— Dryde7t. 

Love virtue.— Milton. 

Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 

Virtue alone is happiness below. 

—Pope. 


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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense; 

The surest guard is innocence; 

Quivers and bows and poison’d darts, 

Are only used by guilty hearts. 

— Roscommon. 

Virtue sole survives, 

Immortal, never-fading friend of man; 

His guide to happiness on high. 

— Thomson. 

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all 
happiness.— Lord Chesterfield. 

NO. 73. MISCELLANEOUS MOTTOES. 

1. I will try to mind my own business. 

2. Be above a sneaking action. 

3. I do my work before I play. 

4. Quiet conduct indicates refinement. 

5. Take no part in idle gossip. 

6. Shun noisy babblers. 

7. Always be on time. 

8. Never be a straggler in any duty. 

9. Pay strict attention and you will be sure to learn. 

10. Do not waste your time in watching others. 

11. An ounce of pluck is worth a pound of luck. 

12. Make no promise you cannot keep. 

13. Shun evil companions. 

14. Always do the best you can. 

15. Let all your work be neat. 

16. Make no idle excuse to leave school. 

17. Do not meddle. 

18. Keep everything in order. 

19. Waste not your time in too much play. 

20. Wherever you may be, God sees you. 

21. Take care what kind of words you use. 

22. A wagon does not need five wheels. 

23. Boots and shoes should always shine. 

24. You can not rest until you are tired. 

25. Sing softly. 


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26. Never strike another. 

27. Lazy people forget, sometimes, to wash and 

comb. 

28. Always say “please,” but don’t say “can’t.” 

29. Never do what you cannot tell your mother. 

30. There is a time for everything. 

31. Impure conversation is the first step to ruin. 

32. Hasty tempers break good resolutions. 

33. Be patient. 

34. No one admires a giggling girl, nor a boisterous 

boy. 

35. Life is too short to waste time. 

36. They that run about much are apt to become 

rude. 

37. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop. 

38. I will own my own tools. 

39. What faults have I? 

40. Please your teacher every day. 



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HYMNS. 

NO. 74. AMERICA. 

1. My country,’tis of thee, 

Sweet land of liberty, 

Of thee I sing; 

Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrims’ pride, 
From ev’ry mountain’s side, 

Let freedom ring! 

2. My native country, thee, 

Land of the noble free, 

Thy name I love; 

I love thy rocks and rills, 

Thy woods and templed hills; 
My heart with rapture thrills, 
Like that above. 

3. Let music swell the breeze, 

And ring from all the trees 

Sweet freedom’s song; 

Let mortal tongues awake, 

Let all that breathe partake, 
Let rocks their silence break, 
The sound prolong. 

4. Our father’s God to Thee, 
Author of liberty, 

To Thee we sing; 

Long may pur land be bright, 
With freedom’s holy light, 
Protect us by Thy might, 

Great God, Our King ! 

NO. 75. CORONATION. 

1. All hail the power of Jesus’ name! 
Let angels prostrate fall; 

Bring forth the royal diadem, 

And crown Him Lord of all. 


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2. Let ev’ry kindred, ev’ry tribe, 

On this terrestrial ball, 

To Him all majesty ascribe, 

And crown Him Lord of all. 

3. Oh, that with yonder sacred throng 

We at His feet may fall; 

We’ll join the everlasting song, 

And crown Him Lord of all. 


NO. 76. BETHANY. 

1. Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee! 

E’en tho’ it be a cross 
That raiseth me, 

Still all my song shall be, 
Nearer, my God to Thee, 
Nearer to Thee! 

2. Tho’ like a wanderer, 

The sun gone down, 

Darkness be over me, 

My rest a stone ; 

Yet in my dreams I’d be 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, 
Nearer to Thee! 

3. There let the way appear, 

Steps unto heaven; 

All that thou sendest me, 

In mercy given; 

Angels to beckon me 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, 
Nearer to Thee! 

4. Then with my waking thoughts, 

Bright with Thy praise, 

Out of my stony griefs, 

Bethel I’ll raise; 

So by my woes to be 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, 
Nearer to Thee! 


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5. Or, if on joyful wings 
Cleaving the sky, 

Sun, moon, and stars forgot, 
Upward I fly; 

Still all my song shall be 
Nearer, my God to Thee 
Nearer to Thee! 


NO. 77. JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL. 

i. Jesus, lover of my soul, 

Let me to Thy bosom fly, 

While the nearer waters roll, 

While the tempest still is high! 
Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, 

Till the storm of life be past; 

Safe into the haven guide; 

Oh, receive my soul at last! 

2 Other refuge have I none; 

Hangs my helpless soul on Thee; 
Leave, oh! leave me not alone, 

Still support and comfort me! 

All my trust on Thee is stayed, 

All my help from Thee I bring; 
Cover my defenceless head 

With the shadow of Thy wing! 

3. Thou, O Christ, art all I want, 

More than all in Thee I find: 

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Heal the sick, and lead the blind! 
Just and holy is Thy Name; 

I am all unrighteousness; 

False and full of sin I am, 

Thou art full of truth and grace. 

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Grace to cover all my sin; 

Let the healing stream abound; 

Make and keep me pure within! 
Thou of Life the Fountain art, 

Freely let me take of Thee; 

Spring Thou up within my heart! 
Rise to all eternity! 



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